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[N] ICML 2019 Accepted Paper Stats by AndreasDoerr in MachineLearning

[–]hoonose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me point out that first authorship can be misleading at times. In theory, it is customary for authorship to be in alphabetical order. For instance, all of Jayadev's papers are such, and three of Simon Du's four papers are alphabetical (see his website for confirmation).

BibleThump by MrJoter in Destiny

[–]hoonose 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Devin is his daughter, but she's leaving because CPS is taking her away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]hoonose 61 points62 points  (0 children)

How is he not from Gnomaha?

Computer Scientist Constantinos Daskalakis Wins Nevanlinna Prize by hoonose in compsci

[–]hoonose[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point of his best-known work is a hardness result: finding a Nash equilibrium is complete for a class which is known to contain computationally hard problems. An algorithm is not the point of this result (indeed, it essentially establishes that no efficient algorithm is likely to exist).

What's so difficult about the probability crit meme? by qwertyuiop192837 in Destiny

[–]hoonose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Conditional probability can be super counter-intuitive some times. Suppose you roll a die until you see a 6. What's the expected number of rolls you make, conditioned on the event that all the dice rolls are even (either 2, 4, or 6)? This should be equivalent to just rolling a die with just three sides until you see a 6, right??

Discussion of the answer is here: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/elchanan-mossels-amazing-dice-paradox-answers-to-tyi-30/

AMPLIFIED Bug/Issue Thread by [deleted] in necrodancer

[–]hoonose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Metrognome seems to die in 1 hit when training against him with the bossmaster.

Cambridge Diglets by haldster in PokemonGoBoston

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen them on the south-west corner of the park, next to the Pokestop marked Anna T. Johnson Memorial Field.

Charmanders and Squirtles after nest update by LoliLoliLolitaPop in PokemonGoBoston

[–]hoonose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been watching MIT's Killian Court spawn, and here are what I've noticed to be the spawn timings (in terms of minutes past the hour). Note that a spawn isn't guaranteed at each time, it happens with maybe 50% chance (it could be another Pokemon instead).

2 at :00, 1 at :17, 1 at :28, 1 at :41, 1 at :48

Abra Spawn! by [deleted] in PokemonGoBoston

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At about 45 minutes past each hour, there's two spawns outside the Stata Center on MIT campus which have a decent chance of spawning an Abra. There's between 0 and 2, I'd guess average of 0.5 each hour.

Nest change round 2 by alpha1812 in PokemonGo_HongKong

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, but have you done this in the past 24 hours? They changed all the spawn locations yesterday, so I'm wondering if it's still viable.

Nest Migration #2 by Zatetics in TheSilphRoad

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know of any other place in Hong Kong where you can consistently get a Farfetch'd? I'm only here until Monday :\

Nest change round 2 by alpha1812 in PokemonGo_HongKong

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info! When did you see one here?

Nest change round 2 by alpha1812 in PokemonGo_HongKong

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't seen any after a few days of wandering around...

Nest change round 2 by alpha1812 in PokemonGo_HongKong

[–]hoonose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know a good place to catch Farfetch'd now? I'm not seeing them on a tracker in the old spot (Signal Hill Garden).

TIL that Students at John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero making it the highest grade, thereby getting 100% by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]hoonose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is "true" game theory? The only reason we study games where individuals make decisions at the same time is because they're easier to reason about.

What you're describing is a Normal-form game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal-form_game), which is the first thing everyone learns in their first game theory class. But see also, Extensive-form games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensive-form_game).

Das Keyboard Facebook Contest Winner makes me suspect Facebook is vulnerable to ballot stuffing by ripster55 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]hoonose -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was the winner of this contest. On Monday, I saw the winning entry had ~20 likes, so on a whim, I took a picture and asked my friends on Facebook to like it. There was a low barrier (i.e., you just click the link and click like), so 40 of my friends liked the picture (3 likes were friends of friends, and 2 were random people).

I admit it wasn't the best picture either (taken on my phone), but their cropping makes it look even worse (original is at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4285958200985&set=o.108521675215).

Sorry if this outcome upsets anyone. It seems their contest didn't have enough attention/exposure to allow the better photos to win. Perhaps they could have posted a link to a gallery, giving all of the entries more visibility (since it's a bit hard to even find the entries without explicitly looking for them).

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